GREENSBORO, N.C. – The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) announced its 2025-26 Team Academic Excellence Award winners on Wednesday, recognizing UW-River Falls among the nation's top academic baseball programs. The award, presented by Sports Attack, honors ABCA member programs that achieved a cumulative team GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale during the 2025-26 academic year. 

UW-River Falls was one of nearly 500 collegiate baseball programs recognized nationwide, joining more than 320 high school programs in earning the distinction for outstanding academic achievement. 

To qualify, programs were required to be an ABCA member institution, have a current ABCA member serving as head coach and post a cumulative team GPA of at least 3.0 during the 2025-26 academic year. 

The American Baseball Coaches Association has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation's oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA's awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/ATEC Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.